The ever-popular "Currently Listening" thread

June 30th, 2013, 13:10

Urgh, I hate vinyl records for as long as I can think back because of the scratches and all. Listening experience with my horrible old record player was … urgh. It made me afraid of vinyl, so I rather bought cassettes.
But cassettes can go all haywire, so the moment the CD came, I bought CDs. Now CDs can have get holes and all, so the moment I could rip them to MP3, I did. Now I have suitcases filled with CDs in the attic and HDDs filled with MP3s. Regularly backed-up HDDs, of course!

I also like what Amazon did with their cloud player … most of the CDs I bought back to 2000 are available as free downloads now. Saved me several hours of searching through the suitcases in the attic last night, as I found out that I hadn't ripped one of my CDs after all. Luckily I remembered that I had bought it via Amazon back then, and luckily it was one of those available as MP3 downloads.

— “ Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage – to move in the opposite direction.“ (E.F.Schumacher, Economist, Source)

Yes, I know Dolce Vita, the album. So they're still touring - Bots is too, so I've learned from a tv documentary a couple of weeks ago. I presume you know Bots?Das weiche Wasser - Bots.
The singer died, but the atomic bombs are still around. I live in THEIR vicinity now. Prefer the beach though.

— A man should never be ashamed to own he has been wrong, which is but saying that he is wiser today than he was yesterday - Alexander Pope

I begin to think that Omega and HiddenX should get their own private song discussion thread …

— “ Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage – to move in the opposite direction.“ (E.F.Schumacher, Economist, Source)

So, a nearby radio station does a "send in your playlist" thing over lunch each day. They mostly play 80s pop during that time, calling it Retro Lunch. You pick 10 songs and they decide if they like your list. I don't really have a burning desire to deal with the radio station, but my mind has taken up the task of trying to create the lists. I've added the complication that I want tightly themed lists made of 80s songs that the average southern Indiana redneck would recognize.

Hehe, out of HiddenX' selection I owned records of Visage, Soft Cell and Joe Dolce back in the days (quite a combination). Hubby had Kim Wilde and Men at Work records. Nowadays we have everything on the list .